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A compromise on access to police misconduct records and other state budget takeaways

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:28:15 GMT

A budget compromise reached Tuesday gives the state agency newly empowered to decertify police officers for misconduct more time before it must disclose all records related to those proceedings, including those produced by local law enforcement agencies.The deal between state lawmakers and the governor’s office ended a budget dispute over access to police records that civil rights, social justice and free press groups argued was a key transparency provision of a landmark 2021 law allowing the state to decertify rogue officers for misconduct.It was among several consequential deals — including one that streamlines the state’s environmental quality law — hashed out in recent days as the Democrat-controlled legislature and Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office worked out differences in their budget plans through a series of implementation “trailer bills” for the 2023-2024 budget that becomes effective in July.“This budget increases our fi...

John Goodenough dies at 100; Nobel-winning scientist’s work led to creation of lithium-ion battery

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:28:15 GMT

By Elizabeth Wolfe | CNNJohn B. Goodenough, the Nobel Prize-winning engineer whose contributions to developing lithium-ion batteries revolutionized portable technology, has died. He was 100.He died Sunday, according to a release from the University of Texas at Austin, where Goodenough served as a faculty member for 37 years. His cause of death was not provided.“John’s legacy as a brilliant scientist is immeasurable — his discoveries improved the lives of billions of people around the world,” UT Austin President Jay Hartzell said in a statement Monday.Goodenough is credited with the crucial discovery and development in the 1980s of materials that would allow for a more stable and powerful rechargeable battery.He became the oldest Nobel Prize winner at 97 when he was awarded the 2019 prize in chemistry for the development of lithium-ion batteries, alongside M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino.Together, the trio’s individual breakthroughs in battery technology “created a rechargea...

Images released of suspect, vehicle in fatal Oakland hit-and-run crash

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:28:15 GMT

OAKLAND — Police on Tuesday released images of the driver and vehicle involved in a fatal hit-and run collision June 16 in East Oakland that left a 58-year-old woman dead.Police identified the woman Tuesday as Santu Maya, of Oakland.The fatal collision happened about 7:05 p.m. June 16 at the intersection of Foothill Boulevard and Vicksburg Avenue.Maya, who lived in the area, was crossing the street in a marked crosswalk when she was hit by a black Mercedes that was going westbound on Foothill and failed to stop for a red light, police said. Police said they believe the Mercedes was involved in a street race and the driver was speeding when the car hit her. She died later at a hospital.The driver fled in the vehicle.Oakland police released this image of a man they suspect in a fatal hit-and-run crash that killed a woman in East Oakland on June 16, 2023. He was driving the black Mercedes seen here. (Courtesy of the Oakland Police Department) Traffic investigators canvassed ...

Warriors: Donte DiVincenzo to decline player option, become free agent

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:28:15 GMT

Donte DiVincenzo is declining the player option on his two-year deal with the Warriors and will become an unrestricted free agent, according to media reports.The 26-year-old guard played a key role off the bench for Golden State last season, averaging 9.4 points and 3.5 assists while shooting 39% from 3 in 26 minutes per game. He played in 72 of the Warriors’ 82 regular-season games and all 13 of their playoff games.DiVincenzo came to the Warriors last season after a troublesome stretch with the Milwaukee Bucks and Sacramento Kings. He injured his foot during the Bucks’ 2021 NBA championship run, underwent foot surgery that offseason and was traded to Sacramento the next season.DiVincenzo signed a two-year, $9.3 million deal with a second-year player option on the second day of free agency last offseason. His departure was somewhat expected as it’s likely the guard will field a more lucrative contract in free agency. Golden State’s trade of Jordan Poole for v...

Children’s Discovery Museum earns a badge for fun with gala

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:28:15 GMT

There were robots and rockets and even a little freestyle rapping at the Children’s Discovery Museum in San Jose on Saturday night. There also were Girl Scouts showing off their ingenuity around downtown’s famed Purple Museum, and more than 350 grown-ups having fun like they were kids again.The occasion was CDM’s Keep on Playing gala, where Sylvia Acevedo — a rocket scientist, tech entrepreneur and former CEO of Girl Scouts of the USA — was honored with the Legacy for Children Award. Keeping with the fun theme of the night, which included people making kaleidoscopes in the LeRoy Neiman Art Studio and launching rockets in Discovery Meadow, most attendees were wearing their best sneakers.Legacy for Children Award recipient Sylvia Acevedo poses with Children’s Discovery Executive Director Marilee Jennings in the museum’s outdoor amphitheater at the Keep on Playing gala on Saturday, June 24, 2023. (Sal Pizarro/Bay Area News Group) After all...

McCarthy angers Trump allies with 2024 candidate answer

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:28:15 GMT

By Kristen Holmes and Nicky Robertson | CNNAdvisers and allies to former President Donald Trump are expressing outrage after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said that he thinks Trump can win in 2024, but does not know if he is the “strongest” candidate.“I’ve been fielding calls on this since it happened,” one Trump ally told CNN, referring to McCarthy’s comments. “People are not happy. What was he thinking?”During a CNBC interview Tuesday, McCarthy was pressed on Trump’s 2024 prospects and the multi-faceted legal issues facing the former president. “Can he win that election? Yeah he can,” McCarthy said. “The question is, is he the strongest to win the election – I don’t know that answer.”McCarthy later attempted to walk back his comments, telling Breitbart that Trump is “stronger today than he was in 2016.”During the CNBC interview, McCarthy also said he believes Trump can beat President Joe Biden. “Can Trump beat Biden? Yeah, he can beat Biden.”Sources close to Trump believe the forme...

Farms targeted in Half Moon Bay mass shootings cited by OSHA

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:28:15 GMT

(KRON) -- Cal/OSHA cited two employers in Half Moon Bay this week following an investigation into workplace violence that killed seven agricultural workers on January 23. The shocking mass shooting was allegedly carried out by Chunli Zhao, an angry 66-year-old farmworker who had worked for California Terra Garden and Concord Farms. San Mateo County prosecutors said Zhao was "angry at several co-workers over perceived mistreatment."Zhao lived in a tiny shack at California Terra Gardens. County supervisors said the tragedy and following investigations exposed "deplorable" living conditions on the farms, wages as low as $9 a day, and several incidents of past violence.Zhao lived with his wife in this shack at California Terra Gardens. (Image courtesy Supervisor Ray Mueller)On Monday Cal/OSHA state labor authorities cited California Terra Garden, Inc. for 22 violations, including five classified as "serious," for failing to have a plan or procedures to immediately notify emplo...

Oakland police searching for Mercedes Benz driver after hit-and-run 

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:28:15 GMT

(KRON) -- The Oakland Police Department is asking for the public's assistance in identifying or locating a person and a black Mercedes Benz in connection to a fatal hit-and-run earlier this month. OPD officers were dispatched to an injury crash just after 7 p.m. on June 16. A pedestrian had been hit by a vehicle at Foothill Boulevard and Vicksburg Avenue. $10,000 reward offered for solving Oakland flower delivery homicide At the scene, officers discovered the victim, 58-year-old Santu Maya of Oakland, suffering from a severe head injury in relation to the crash. She was pronounced dead a short while later, police said.Maya was crossing the street in a marked crosswalk when she was hit by a car, according to police. The suspect vehicle fled the scene. Police described it as a newer Mercedes Benz, possibly 2010-2013 E-350. It is black in color with tinted windows and stock rims.Photo: OPDPhoto: OPDPhoto: OPDThe car's license plate, CA 5AUT731, may have been removed, police said. It'...

After Overturning Roe v. Wade, SCOTUS Treats Itself to Sprawling Security Detail

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:28:15 GMT

When people took to protesting outside of the homes of Supreme Court justices following the leak of the draft decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, hundreds of federal agents were quietly watching, both in real life and online, for “concerning communications.” Now the Court has sought to enshrine the new praetorian guard indefinitely, according to documents reviewed by The Intercept.The Supreme Court sought millions for security last year, enlisting the U.S. Marshals to provide personal details for the justices. A year later, that security force hasn’t seen a significant increase in threats or attacks, according to documents reviewed by The Intercept, but the Supreme Court is asking to continue — and in some cases, even augment — the high level of security.Last summer, hundreds gathered outside the homes of the conservative justices to protest the Dobbs decision, which effectively eliminated reproductive rights for millions. Top Republicans quickly cast the demonstrations as illegal, ar...

Twins’ bullpen takes another hit with Stewart placed on injured list with sore elbow

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:28:15 GMT

ATLANTA (AP) — The Minnesota Twins lost another reliever Tuesday when they placed right-hander Brock Stewart on the 15-day injured list with right elbow soreness.The move came one day after the team announced that José De León will need a second Tommy John surgery on his right elbow. The right-handed reliever was placed on the 15-day IL on Sunday after hurting his elbow while warming up a day earlier.Twins manager Rocco Baldelli said he hopes Stewart, one of the team’s top setup men, has a short stay on the IL. Baldelli said the team’s medical staff believes Stewart has tendinitis in his elbow, and there is “a reasonable chance we’ve sort of headed off this issue and it won’t be too long.”Baldelli said Stewart will have tests to confirm the initial diagnosis. He said Stewart has “been kind of fighting through” soreness in the elbow for about a week.Stewart is 2-0 with a 0.70 ERA and one save in 25 games while allowing only 15 hits in 25 2/3 innings.Righ...